Literate Quotes

125 Literate quotes by 119 unique authors

MARVEL IS A CORNUCOPIA OF FANTASY, A WILD IDEA , A SWASHBUCKLING ATTITUDE , AN ESCAPE FROM THE HUMDRUM AND PROSAIC. IT'S A SERENDIPITOUS FEAST… — Stan Lee
In a participatory culture, none of us is fully literate unless we're creating, not just consuming. — Dan Gillmor
Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities of… — Chris Hedges
This is not an international thriller so much as a fiercely literate attempt to subvert the thriller genre itself. — Christopher Rice
I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I… — John Travolta
Intelligence tests are biased toward the literate. — George Carlin
Every literate woman is a victory over poverty — Ban Ki-moon
I've been told that I am evil. I've been told that I am behind the persecution of millions of Americans. That I have encouraged hate… — Roger Ebert
Is it possible that Jesus, unlike 98 percent of his fellow Jews, was literate and educated? Yes, it's possible. — Reza Aslan
I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and we often talked… — Toby Young
Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only… — Aldous Huxley
The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the… — George Steiner
My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in… — Steven Moffat
Culture, with its processes and functions, is a subject upon which we need all the enlightenment we can achieve, and there is no direction in… — Ruth Benedict
You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read. — Christina Hoff Sommers
I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate. — James Herbert
I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned,… — Katie Holmes
I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments. — Hari Kunzru
MindSparks has produced some of the best materials on the market for teaching students how to read and write history with intellectual integrity and depth.… — Sam Wineburg
I came out of my professional athlete career with a 450 credit score, no money in the bank to show for it, but I had… — Brian J. White
Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the culture. Obviously, such… — Edward Hirsch
I guess the producers saw me and knew I was literate and I always tried to be alert and it's funny because you have to… — June Lockhart
No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart. — Eric Hoffer
Sincere thought, real free thought, ready, in the name of superhuman authority or of humble common sense, to question the basis of what is officially… — Savitri Devi
People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past. — Daniel Pauly

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